To design robust protected area networks, accurately measure species losses, or
understand the processes that maintain species diversity, conservation science must …

Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …

The increasing urbanization process is hypothesized to drastically alter (semi‐) natural
environments with a concomitant major decline in species abundance and diversity. Yet …

As human density increases, biodiversity must increasingly co-exist with urbanization or face
local extinction. Tolerance of urban areas has been linked to numerous functional traits, yet …

Human-driven environmental changes shape ecological communities from local to global
scales. Within cities, landscape-scale patterns and processes and species characteristics …

Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Cities are growing rapidly, thereby expected to cause a large‐scale global biotic
homogenization. Evidence for the homogenization hypothesis is mostly derived from plants …

Background Habitat loss, fragmentation and decrease of habitat quality caused by
urbanization have led to a dramatic decline in biodiversity worldwide. For highly urbanized …

Context Landscape metrics represent powerful tools for quantifying landscape structure, but
uncertainties persist around their interpretation. Urban settings add unique considerations …

The rapid urbanization of the world has profound effects on global biodiversity, and
urbanization has been counted among the processes contributing to the homogenization of …